The error cost the Giants an opportunity to kick a winning field goal.
An error here or there and not getting runs in will cost you.
An error in technique might cost months of time, or cause genuine suffering.
I told him that his employee's error should not cost me $70.
I have to check on all his purchases, for even a slight error might cost us thousands of dollars.
In other circumstances such an error could have cost his life.
The error cost him the race, which he lost by more than two minutes.
It is close enough so that careless errors could cost him the game.
We've come too far to be beaten now and an error could cost us all our lives.
The cult of statistical significance: How the standard error costs us jobs, justice, and lives.